Analysis Of My Thoughts Be Bloody

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Savannah Kurtz Theatre History II William Grange April 4, 2014 My Thoughts Be Bloody By Nora Titone My Thoughts Be Bloody is a book not just about the man behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but also about his far less mentioned brother, Edwin Booth, and the rivalry between the two that eventually let to one of the loudest gunshots heard around the world. It is a story often ignored throughout history classes as students are taught about the Booths and Lincoln’s assassination. This book does an excellent job and painting a picture of the life these two brothers were captured in as their rivalry spun in the direction of one of America’s greatest tragedies. My Thoughts Be Bloody, renews a figure whose name has been missing from the story of President Lincoln’s death. Edwin Booth, John Wilkes’s older brother by four years, was one of the biggest stars of the American stage in his day. Titone delves deeper into his story using a collection of private letters, diaries, and memoirs of the Booth family, to uncover a buried history that reveals the reasons why John Wilkes Boo...

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